"A report in the Washington Post this morning details the soul searching National Public Radio is doing over contributor David Sedaris. Sedaris is a well-known memoirist and comic whose quirky stories about his upbringing and later life have also been best-selling books.
The issue NPR is having is that it is a news organization and Sedaris might be making stuff up. The Washington Post:
“In a lengthy" Realish-ism: new literary genre or dancing around the truth?
"It will not come as news to any of you that writing is a really hard endeavor. Just about everybody agrees with that.
In THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF EXPERTISE AND EXPERT PERFORMANCE (a book that examines the scientific understanding of expertise in fifteen areas of endeavor), author Ronald Kellogg writes that serious writing requires the same kind of mental effort as a chess match or musical" The Tortoise and the Binge-Writer, Race to Deadline
"A team of scientists at Cornell University has reviewed hundreds of famous movie quotes to find out what makes them memorable. The researchers took 1,000 well-known quotes as identified by IMDb and matched them with other quotes that have not proved as durable. The pairs of quotes came from the same movie, were spoken by the same character, were about the same length and appeared" Think you have written a memorable line? Put it to the test:
